Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

Name: Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
Author: Cat Bohannon
ISBN: 9781529151251

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#1383 of 3,809 books · #126 in Science & Technology

Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing (2024) and the Royal Society Science Book Prize (2024).

Eve won the New York Times Bestseller list, was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 2024, shortlisted for the Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize 2024, named Foyle's Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2023, and was longlisted for Blackwell's Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2023. How did wet nurses drive civilization? Are women always the weaker sex? Is sexism useful for evolution? And are our bodies at war with our babies? In Eve, Cat Bohannon answers questions scientists should have been addressing for decades. With boundless curiosity and sharp wit, she covers the past 200 million years to explain the specific science behind the development of the female sex. Eve is not only a sweeping revision of human history, it's an urgent and necessary corrective for a world that has focused primarily on the male body for far too long. Bohannon's findings, including everything from the way C-sections in the industrialized world are rearranging women's pelvic shape to the surprising similarities between pus and breast milk, will completely change what you think you know about evolution and why Homo sapiens have become such a successful and dominant species, from tool use to city building to the development of language.

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